Appetitive memories play a crucial role in learning and behavior, but under certain circumstances, such memories become maladaptive and play a vital role in addiction and other psychopathologies.

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It is unclear whether other types of disgust stimuli could have led to different results. Second, it is possible that a closer fit of CS and UCS could lead to stronger effects of the ...

Because extinction forms the empirical foundation of exposure therapy, strategies to enhance extinction could lead to more effective interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, we ...

Let’s talk about counterconditioning. It might sound like a technical term, but the idea behind it is actually pretty simple. It’s all about changing how someone feels. Instead of focusing on stopping ...

For example, imagine if every time your dog saw a person walk by the house, they lunged at the window, growled, barked, and scratched up your windowsill. These negative feelings and unwanted behaviors ...